Alex Pavlenko
Verified Expert in Engineering
Quality Assurance Engineer and Developer
Grodno, Hrodna Region, Belarus
Toptal member since September 17, 2022
Alex is a lead quality assurance engineer and manager with over 12 years of experience in software testing. In addition to his expertise in quality assurance, Alex has worked as a scrum master and project manager on several large-scale outsourced projects. Since obtaining his bachelor's degree, Alex has been certified as a tester and test manager by ISTQB and a scrum master by Scrum.org.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Jira, Azure DevOps, Manual QA, Web App Testing, Mobile App Testing, Team Leadership, Test Cases, Quality Assurance (QA), Manual Software Testing, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
The most amazing...
...experience I've had was as a QA Engineer, and I will do my best to make each of my projects successful.
Work Experience
QA Manager
Exadel
- Led the QA testing and delivery of a web portal used by a Big 4 accounting firm for accounting, taxation, and data management.
- Delivered a web portal for a healthcare organization in the US and Europe that handles ordering, managing, and approving requests for medications and medical devices.
- Tested and delivered a web portal and a mobile application for managing gym and sports facilities staff and customers for a prominent US sport and fitness provider.
- Handled the quality assurance and project delivery of a REST API service that manages local television tracking and ratings for broadcasts and cable networks after airing.
- Contributed to the web app for US real estate news and their online newspaper service by conducting testing.
- Set up testing processes from scratch, created test plans and reports, and discussed the testing approach with customer representatives.
- Conducted technical interviews for quality assurance engineers, led 15-person manual and automation QA teams, mentored them when needed, and contributed to the projects as a quality assurance engineer.
- Created thousands of test cases and performed various testing, including functional, non-functional, smoke, regression, and exploratory.
- Coordinated and participated in presale activities, estimated a wide range of testing and other activities, and provided the customer with result demonstrations.
- Acted as a scrum master and project manager, delivered projects, participated in estimations and planning sessions, communicated with the client, and set up the Scrum methodology and processes for new projects.
QA Team Leader
Exposit
- Contributed to the tool for online media solutions by testing and delivering it. The tool is used for product information, media asset, brand, workflow, and media production management.
- Led the QA team and delivered a web-based mobile application used to quickly and inexpensively deploy online catalogs and newspapers.
- Tested and delivered a new customer company website.
- Collaborated on an integrated solution for an online business, including web, Android, and iOS applications, to provide partner companies with a wide range of options for managing content.
Senior QA Engineer
EPAM Systems
- Delivered and tested native Android and iOS mobile applications, including one for watching TV and videos on mobile devices and the TV set-top box connection and management app.
- Contributed to a Germany-based web platform that manages business processes alongside international service providers by testing and delivering the platform.
- Completed the Bootcamp for Software Testing Engineers and CDP for Software Testing Engineers courses.
QA Engineer
iTransition
- Contributed to projects as a quality assurance engineer and co-developed on-premise and cloud software for backup, disaster recovery, secure file sync, sharing, and data access for a customer.
- Collaborated on and delivered multiple training projects.
- Participated in and completed manual quality assurance training.
Experience
Web Application for a Big 4 Accounting Firm
Also, I collaborated with the development team on resolving issues, proposed new features to improve the application, created test cases, conducted mobile and functional testing, prepared test and use cases for business testing, and wrote support tickets. My role included communicating with stakeholders and interacting with customers over email and through status calls. I provided demonstrations to customers and stakeholders and handled weekly status and sprint result reports.
Web Application for a Healthcare Organization in USA and Europe
Also, I helped the team handle issues, managed team resources, held the sprint review during sprint planning, and participated in estimations and planning. Outside the team, I handled customer email correspondence, reported to customers through weekly status reports, and communicated with stakeholders.
Web Application for a Major Sport and Fitness Provider in the USA and Central America
As part of my daily workload, I created test cases, analyzed issues, wrote trouble tickets, proposed new features to improve the application, and worked on analyzing and correcting requirements. I also handled communication with the stakeholders and customers via status calls and email and reported to customers through weekly status and sprint result reports.
REST API Service for Managing Data and Tracking Local Television Ratings at a Telecast Level in USA
Working on the project, I handled creation test cases, selected the test strategy, performed functional testing, wrote support tickets, and worked with the development team to resolve issues. As part of the QA team, I participated in the QA process improvement, ran automated tests, analyzed results, and handled requirement analysis and correction.
Web Platform for Trading Information of Vehicles, Aircrafts, and Equipment for customer in Europe
While working on the project, I created test cases, updated the test plan, performed functional testing, analyzed issues, and wrote trouble tickets. I participated in the QA process improvement, analysis and correction of requirements, and resolving open issues with the development team.
Native Android and iOS Mobile Application for Huge Internet and TV Provider in Europe
Redevelopment of Estate Web and Mobile Portal - A #1 Among US Websites With the Wealthiest Audience
New Design for Medical Web Portals
Web Platform for an Online Media Tool
Web and Hybrid Mobile Applications
I handled creating test cases and trouble tickets, testing the apps on multiple devices, and resolving open issues with the development team. While working for the same company, I handled similar web and hybrid application projects, including testing a new customer company website and working on a mobile application for deploying online catalogs and newspapers.
Application for Checking Skills of QA Engineers After Training
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Management of Information Resources
Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Belarus - Minsk, Belarus
Certifications
ISTQB Advanced Level Test Manager (CTAL-TM)
ISTQB
Professional Scrum Master Level I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)
ISTQB
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST API
Tools
Postman, Jira, F12 Developer Tools, Confluence, Jira Xray, Microsoft PowerPoint, Fiddler, VMware, VirtualBox, Squirrel, Crashlytics, TestFlight, Charles Proxy, InVision, Redmine, Figma, Xcode, Android, Robo 3T (Robomongo), Jenkins, Zeplin Design, Zephyr, Subversion (SVN), TortoiseSVN, TortoiseGit, PuTTY, WinSCP, VMware, Charles, Gutenberg Editor, TestRail, BrowserStack, Visio, IBM Rational Rose, Git, Google Analytics
Paradigms
Manual Testing, Testing, Azure DevOps, Scrum Master Consulting, E2E Testing, Management, Functional Testing, Best Practices, Agile Development, Software Testing, Acceptance Testing, HIPAA Compliance, ETL
Platforms
Windows Development, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Windows Development, Firefox, Android, iOS, Mobile App Design, Mobile App Design, Azure, HockeyApp, WordPress Development, TestLink, AWS, Oracle Development, Linux, Safari, MacOS
Storage
Oracle Development, Amazon S3, JSON, MySQL, Oracle Development, Data Validation, MongoDB, Database
Industry Expertise
Retail & Wholesale
Languages
SQL, XML, UML
Frameworks
Swagger, Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Other
Manual QA, UI Development, UX Development, Scrum Master Consulting, Mobile App Testing, QA Test Plan Management, Team Mentoring, Team Leadership, Product Demonstrations, Estimations, Presales, Test Planning, Test Cases, Test Case Creation, Interviewing, Team Management, Test Case Execution, Test Reporting, Web App Testing, Desktop Application Testing, Hybrid Apps, Test Management, Windows 10, QA Testing, Leading Quality Assurance (LQA), Mobile Apps, Mobile UI Design, PDF, Manual Software Testing, QA Testing, GUI Testing, API, Web QA Engineering, QA Leadership, Software QA, Quality Assurance Engineering, Quality Control (QC), Quality Improvement, Quality Management, Interviews, Test Estimation, Project Estimation, Estimation & Planning, Scrum Testing, System Requirements, Web Application, Mobile App Design, Regression Testing, Black Box Testing, Integration Testing, Coaching, Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC), Content Management Systems (CMS), Testing Strategy, Smoke Testing, Test Scenarios, Cross-browser Testing, Website Testing, Complex Problem Solving, Analytical Thinking, End-to-end Implementation (E2E), Quality Assurance Management, APIs, ISTQB, Android, CSV, Localization Testing, Scrum Project Management, Test Analysis, Finance, E-commerce marketing, CI/CD Pipelines, OpenAI GPT-3 API, GPT-4, Native Mobile Apps, Selenium IDE, Demographic Data, Entertainment & Leisure, Healthcare Management Systems, Audit Testing, Machine Learning, Online Media, Waterfall Methodology, Microsoft Clarity, Cloud Engineering, WordPress Plugins, Business Analysis Consulting, Embedded Systems Engineering, Firmware, Firmware over the Air (FOTA)
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